Luncheon Meat Bun 午餐肉包

I wanted to try the "Ferment Dough" function on the Mayer MMBM12 breadmaker today, so I chose a bakery bun recipe that would require manual shaping and baking in a normal oven.

This is one of our favourites, Luncheon Meat Bun. Basically the dough recipe is a sweet dough recipe that is used for most commonly found items in Chinese bakery shops. The fillings can vary from luncheon meat to sausage to char siew to curry, whatever is your preference. Thus I wanted to try this recipe and see if it is a keeper, so that I do not have to store so many different recipes.

I made only half a recipe as my Breadmaker's capacity is only 750g (a quick calculation put the ingredients at >900g). The steps were standard: mix all dough ingredients until no longer tacky->proof 30 mins -->punch back -->2nd proofing 30 mins-->shape -->final proofing -->brush with eggwash -->bake for 10-15 mins at 200°C.




Original Recipe from “港面包， 港味道” - 邱勇灵 编著

面团
高筋面粉 450 克
糖 112 克
酵母 7 克
牛油／猪油 42 克
温水 3/4杯
鸡蛋1只
牛奶1/4 杯
面粉改良剂 4 克

1杯为250毫升， 鸡蛋一只约为50克。

馅料
午餐肉16片

装饰
蛋液适量 （扫面）
马苏里拉 （Mozzarella）芝士碎适量

Breadmaker Sweet White Bread

I decided to try using the Mayer Breadmaker timer cycle to bake the bread in the early hours of the morning. True enough, I woke up to the yeasty smell wafting from our kitchen. The loaf wasn't very high, but when I cut it, it was so lovely soft and fluffy (and 'hole-ly'). 

I used the recipe from mymindpatch cos the same bread machine is being used. 

Ingredients

160g cold water 

45g raw sugar 

3g salt 

20g oil 

210g bread flour 

50g top/cake flour 

3/4 tsp instant dry yeast

I used menu C-2 for "Sweet Bread", Weight: 500g, Crust:Light.

How it looks like straight from Breadmaker.

Emptied from bread barrel, upside-down. The hole in the middle is where the paddle was. 

Sliced white bread for breakfast

Unboxing Mayer Breadmaker MMBM12

Hubby told me there was a Mayer atrium sale near his workplace and snapped a pic of the Mayer Breadmaker (MMBM12) on sale. It was going for about 50% off (compared to online sources and other retailers like Parisilk), so we jumped on the offer and bought it.

Y went with me to purchase it and she was so excited about the new purchase that she actually helped me carry the box (4.5kg) home from our basement carpark!

Naturally, Y continued to harrass me to open and bake bread immediately, so we did just that. 

Opening the box, we found the operating manual/instruction book and a glove(for protecting your hand when removing the inner bread barrel from the machine body). Inside the bread barrel, there was the stirrer, a measuring cup, and a dual measuring spoon.